I live in Brazil. I was watching a morning rural show on TV - a news show focusing on rural businesses - a few weeks ago and this story came up. A guy is raising larvae right here on my southern Brazilian state, big metal shelves brimming with writhing masses of little white critters. Interesting. I wonder what for. The story cuts to the reporter, an elegantly dressed woman in her mid-thirties, sitting at an open-air restaurant table with a plate of bugs in front of her. Ah yes. It is happening at last. It was not just a meme. We will eat the bugs.
Meanwhile it seems that the meat industry is being slowly sabotaged. Meat prices are rising. The environmental pretexts for discontinuing meat and introducing bugs as food are clearly false. I wonder what the real reasons are. I can think of two things. First, bugs are unhealthy, PUFA-rich things, a poor substitute for meat, and stunting people's health and intelligence by giving them unhealthy food is clearly part of the agenda and has been going on for decades. Peat seems to attribute the rise of seed oils to capitalistic greed, but I get the feeling the people behind it know quite well that PUFAs are unhealthy. Second, it smacks of perversity. I have read sick things about the global cryptocracy, stories everyone here certainly knows about, and well, having the plebs eat bugs just feels like something a villain would do.
Just a little rant. This pisses me off. I love me some meat and a meatless future is not something I look forward to.
Meanwhile it seems that the meat industry is being slowly sabotaged. Meat prices are rising. The environmental pretexts for discontinuing meat and introducing bugs as food are clearly false. I wonder what the real reasons are. I can think of two things. First, bugs are unhealthy, PUFA-rich things, a poor substitute for meat, and stunting people's health and intelligence by giving them unhealthy food is clearly part of the agenda and has been going on for decades. Peat seems to attribute the rise of seed oils to capitalistic greed, but I get the feeling the people behind it know quite well that PUFAs are unhealthy. Second, it smacks of perversity. I have read sick things about the global cryptocracy, stories everyone here certainly knows about, and well, having the plebs eat bugs just feels like something a villain would do.
Just a little rant. This pisses me off. I love me some meat and a meatless future is not something I look forward to.